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A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond

BACKGROUND: Tree to tree interactions are important structuring mechanisms for forest community dynamics. Forest management takes advantage of competition effects on tree growth by removing or retaining trees to achieve management goals. Both competition and silviculture have, thus, a strong effect...

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Autores principales: Zudin, Sergey, Heintz, Wilfried, Kraus, Daniel, Krumm, Frank, Larrieu, Laurent, Schuck, Andreas
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e91385
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author Zudin, Sergey
Heintz, Wilfried
Kraus, Daniel
Krumm, Frank
Larrieu, Laurent
Schuck, Andreas
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Heintz, Wilfried
Kraus, Daniel
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description BACKGROUND: Tree to tree interactions are important structuring mechanisms for forest community dynamics. Forest management takes advantage of competition effects on tree growth by removing or retaining trees to achieve management goals. Both competition and silviculture have, thus, a strong effect on density and distribution of tree related microhabitats which are key features for forest taxa at the stand scale. In particular, spatially-explicit data to understand patterns and mechanisms of tree-related microhabitats formation in forest stands are rare. To train and eventually improve decision-making capacities related to the integration of biodiversity aspects into forest management plot of one hectare, so called marteloscopes were established in the frame of the ‘European Integrate Network’. In each plot, a set of data is collected at the individual tree level and stored in a database, the ‘I+ repository’. The 'I+ repository' is a centralised online database which serves for maintaining the data of all marteloscope plots. A subset of this repository was made publicly available via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, based on a data-sharing policy. Data included are tree location in plot, tree species, forest mensuration data (diameter at breast height [cm], tree height [m]), tree status (living or standing dead) and tree-related microhabitats. Further, a visual assessment of timber quality classes is performed in order to provide an estimate of the economic value (market price) for each tree. This information is not part of the GBIF dataset. NEW INFORMATION: Currently 42,078 individual tree observations from 111 plots are made available via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). As the network of plots continues to expand, so does the database of tree-related microhabitats. Therefore, the database will undergo a regular update. The current version has a temporal coverage from March 2014 to December 2020. The innovation of this unique dataset is that it is based on a commonly agreed catalogue of tree microhabitats as a field reference list when assessing assessment protocol. The reference list is available in 17 languages and, thus, helps to guarantee compatibility of tree-related microhabitat assessments across countries and plots.
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spelling pubmed-98365692023-02-08 A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond Zudin, Sergey Heintz, Wilfried Kraus, Daniel Krumm, Frank Larrieu, Laurent Schuck, Andreas Biodivers Data J Data Paper (Biosciences) BACKGROUND: Tree to tree interactions are important structuring mechanisms for forest community dynamics. Forest management takes advantage of competition effects on tree growth by removing or retaining trees to achieve management goals. Both competition and silviculture have, thus, a strong effect on density and distribution of tree related microhabitats which are key features for forest taxa at the stand scale. In particular, spatially-explicit data to understand patterns and mechanisms of tree-related microhabitats formation in forest stands are rare. To train and eventually improve decision-making capacities related to the integration of biodiversity aspects into forest management plot of one hectare, so called marteloscopes were established in the frame of the ‘European Integrate Network’. In each plot, a set of data is collected at the individual tree level and stored in a database, the ‘I+ repository’. The 'I+ repository' is a centralised online database which serves for maintaining the data of all marteloscope plots. A subset of this repository was made publicly available via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, based on a data-sharing policy. Data included are tree location in plot, tree species, forest mensuration data (diameter at breast height [cm], tree height [m]), tree status (living or standing dead) and tree-related microhabitats. Further, a visual assessment of timber quality classes is performed in order to provide an estimate of the economic value (market price) for each tree. This information is not part of the GBIF dataset. NEW INFORMATION: Currently 42,078 individual tree observations from 111 plots are made available via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). As the network of plots continues to expand, so does the database of tree-related microhabitats. Therefore, the database will undergo a regular update. The current version has a temporal coverage from March 2014 to December 2020. The innovation of this unique dataset is that it is based on a commonly agreed catalogue of tree microhabitats as a field reference list when assessing assessment protocol. The reference list is available in 17 languages and, thus, helps to guarantee compatibility of tree-related microhabitat assessments across countries and plots. Pensoft Publishers 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9836569/ /pubmed/36761561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e91385 Text en Sergey Zudin, Wilfried Heintz, Daniel Kraus, Frank Krumm, Laurent Larrieu, Andreas Schuck https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kraus, Daniel
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Larrieu, Laurent
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A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title_full A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title_fullStr A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title_full_unstemmed A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title_short A spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in Europe and beyond
title_sort spatially-explicit database of tree-related microhabitats in europe and beyond
topic Data Paper (Biosciences)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e91385
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